Friday, September 14, 2012

week 4 D-2 Privilege



The concept of “White men of privilege” has to do with white males having more opportunities than other males. It’s also about how white males have more wealth and privileges than others. The book mentions that there has been a long overridden assumption that the upper-class and upper-middle-class  White Europeans  have more wealth and privileges.  I don’t agree with the concept but do believe that a lot of other people do. I don’t think it’s fair to single out certain classes and to say they are better than another based on ethnicity. I don’t believe the concept should exist, but I do know people that would and who would agree with it.  I do however at times think that white people are given more opportunities to do certain things, but then again I think that people of other ethnicities are also given more opportunities with other things than white people are.  It all balances out in the end of people jump at the right opportunities and to not just sit there thinking they always get left out. 

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